The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1194

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters. Today is Wednesday the 25th of June and

00:00:05.120 this is episode 1194. I'm pleased today to be joined by brother Stephen and brother Harry.

00:00:11.960 Hello. Going back to the old brother thing are we? I forgot to bring my hood with me.

00:00:17.100 And we are going to discuss the ongoing developments of the Carmelo Anthony trial,

00:00:23.500 the MAGA versus fake MAGA wars or FAGA wars and how Democrats,

00:00:28.100 judges. I thought we'd agreed it was pronounced FAGA. FAGA. Okay. The FAGA. Although I will,

00:00:36.040 before we're on YouTube, I will say the FAGA wars as much as possible. FAGA wars is a great name for

00:00:42.060 it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just wondering whether we hope not hate will be at us again with FAGA

00:00:46.440 wars. It comes with an A. Yeah. But it could end up with an OT. All right. There's no hard R at the

00:00:53.140 end of this. All right. There's an A at the end. It's an A. There's no OT at the end of it either.

00:01:00.000 We are all inclusive in this station. Exactly. So Carmelo Anthony is obviously guilty. Harry,

00:01:08.240 do you want to start with your segment? You are going to make us very angry. We're not going to

00:01:13.140 talk about the FAGA's anymore. We are going to talk about it. Okay. All right. I need some

00:01:18.640 anticipation for the FAGA. Yeah. But what about Firas? All right. Okay. So we're on real politics.

00:01:22.740 We're on YouTube now. So I'll have to save it for when we're off of YouTube again. So yeah,

00:01:29.240 Carmelo Anthony, obviously guilty. You all probably remember the case from earlier on this year,

00:01:34.480 but I'm going to go over a little bit of it again and then give you an update. First though,

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00:02:10.700 suddenly far more attractive to the opposite sex. There you go. All right. So nice reminder for

00:02:16.880 everybody. I'm not left-handed. So this is very awkward. Switching, switching, switching.

00:02:21.900 I'm still using the Sadiq Khan mug for some reason. I went on autopilot this morning and just started

00:02:27.780 filling it up. And now it looks like I am a super fan of Sadiq Khan. And now New Yorkers are going to

00:02:33.140 have a similar cup. Yeah. They're going to have a similar feeling to what I feel right now. Yeah. But once

00:02:38.700 you're in Sadiq's clan, he never lets you go. It's like a disease.

00:02:42.820 I wondered where you were going with that sentence then. So let's remind everybody of what happened. So

00:02:48.260 here's some footage from earlier on this year, back in April. This chappy right here, who's a bit blurry

00:02:55.220 in this video. Oh God, it'll do the audio, won't it? Right. There we go. There he is. This,

00:03:02.780 this dead-eyed young man right here, that's Carmelo Anthony. He is a suspected, alleged murderer

00:03:13.320 who is currently being investigated. He is going to be on trial soon enough. The reminder for

00:03:20.280 everybody what happened earlier on this year in Texas, there was a sports event going on one day

00:03:28.260 where two schools were participating in the event. I believe it was a running event or track event,

00:03:33.440 something along those lines. Austin Metcalf and his brother were members of one school.

00:03:39.460 Carmelo Anthony was a member of the other school. Carmelo Anthony came over to sit under the other

00:03:44.760 school's tent. Austin Metcalf approached him and said, you shouldn't be here. Can you please leave?

00:03:50.380 At which point, Carmelo Anthony began acting suspicious, backing up, reaching for his bag and saying,

00:03:56.720 come at me and see what happens. This was all part of the affidavits and the police report,

00:04:01.540 which you could find online, available to the public when this incident first happened.

00:04:06.300 Upon being provoked, Austin Metcalf did reach for him, at which point Carmelo Anthony pulled out a knife

00:04:13.480 and stabbed Austin Metcalf to death right then and there. Pretty horrifying incident. He was then

00:04:21.420 arrested and a number of other things came out. The most famous thing that happened at the time was

00:04:26.000 Austin Metcalf's dad came out into the public and said that this was not anything to do with race,

00:04:32.180 don't make it about race. Pay no attention to the fact that this is just another case of unprovoked

00:04:38.320 violence of black versus white, which only ever tends to go in one direction, whereas the media

00:04:44.640 narratives would hardly believe the other way. It came across very strange that that was immediately

00:04:49.620 where he would go to in an interview when he wasn't prompted to, which got a lot of people thinking

00:04:54.360 and looking into why that might be the case, because there is government involvement in these

00:04:58.640 situations. And that's when we did a segment that Roar Egg Nationalist did on this called

00:05:03.080 Government Enforced Anti-White Racism, which has been expanded upon slightly with a recent video

00:05:08.920 from the Academic Agent called Did a Secret Agency Really Control the Civil Rights Revolution? And what this

00:05:14.600 is in regards to is a government agency for the United States, I think they're called the Civil

00:05:22.280 Relations, I've forgotten what they're called all of a sudden, apologies folks, but there is a, under the

00:05:28.820 Johnson administration, there was a department of the government opened that operates in relative

00:05:35.740 secrecy that is dedicated to maintaining community relations and racial relations within the United

00:05:43.940 States. And what this means is that whenever there is a racially aggravated crime committed that could

00:05:49.860 look bad in the media, they are the ones who end up going out. We don't know if they declare which

00:05:55.620 department that they are from, but they basically say, we're from the government and they hand you a

00:06:00.180 script or bullet points on what you have to say to ensure that nothing inflames community tensions.

00:06:05.780 I'd recommend watching both of these videos. Why does no one ever say no to them after all the cases then?

00:06:11.700 I would assume fear. Fear of the fact that, well, two things. Why does no one ever mention it either?

00:06:17.460 One, people's bias, which is to not want to rock the boat. So they worry that violence could beget more

00:06:23.860 violence and they're told by the government, somebody comes to you from the government saying,

00:06:27.700 if you inflame this further, we could see more violence. People don't want that on their conscience.

00:06:33.140 And secondly, somebody comes to you from saying, we're from the government do this. There's a natural

00:06:38.340 assumption that consequences will follow if you don't. So I think it's fear and people's natural

00:06:44.820 predisposition to not want to rock the boat in a situation like this, especially when you're already

00:06:48.980 going through a tragedy of having lost your son. Yeah, I suppose they must deal with people who,

00:06:54.660 who, who, if it was like me, I wouldn't give two flying Fs to, like frankly, whatever the government

00:07:00.820 would say. I wouldn't want to play into the government's narrative on something like this

00:07:03.540 either. But most people are normies and don't like to pay as much attention to this sort of stuff

00:07:10.100 that we do. And it is very, very dark that the United States government feels that instead of

00:07:15.240 actually dealing with these problems and preventing them, all it wants to do, in the same way that our

00:07:20.340 government does with Raikou and all of the other things that go on with the Home Office, they just

00:07:25.940 want to manage the perception after the fact, after something has already happened. Either way,

00:07:31.300 some of the other things that happened was that, uh, oh yeah, his, uh, his judge at the hearings,

00:07:38.740 initially, uh, put his bail at $1 million, and then that was reduced to $250,000, uh, because there was

00:07:50.260 a case made that, uh, oh, we're a working family, we need the money, we can't raise the money, despite

00:07:56.980 the fact you only need to pay about 10% of the bail anyway. Um, despite the fact that they are not just a

00:08:03.060 working family, they put up a GoFundMe, which was immediately flooded with people who were giving

00:08:08.980 donations for the sake of the killer's family. Whether or not you think he's guilty of first

00:08:14.180 degree murder, Carmelo Anthony has already admitted that he killed him. The quay, uh, the, the case

00:08:20.500 comes down to whether it is in self-defense or not. Either way, large swaths of American society

00:08:27.300 see a black kid murder or kill a white kid and decide they're the real victims because they're

00:08:34.580 victims of systemic racism, white oppression, all of these other buzzwords, and say we're going to

00:08:40.020 financially support that, and loads of them left comments on this GoFundMe page that were pretty

00:08:46.180 reprehensible, saying you're fighting the good fight, Carmelo, show them what's what, uh, we need to

00:08:52.980 show these oppressors what's coming for them. Very South African, if I'm frank, frank about it, sadly.

00:09:00.180 Didn't they raise half a million dollars for him? Yes. Which is insane.

00:09:04.420 They continually changed the description of the fundraiser as well, because at first it heavily

00:09:09.140 implied that this would be money going towards the bail funds, and then after they raised more

00:09:13.300 money than they would need for the bail funds, it suddenly became about maintaining living standards

00:09:18.420 for the family because her father, because the father, Mr. Anthony, was going to have to take time

00:09:23.780 off of work to be there with his kids, etc., etc., this all despite the fact that they were already

00:09:28.500 living in a $900,000 gated community home. Can I say something also real quick? If you could go,

00:09:34.660 please, back to the previous link you were showing. The first line, that's the line of the account.

00:09:40.660 Maybe that's not the exact way it was communicated, but it says this judge... That's not how it was

00:09:45.540 communicated, but I think we can all understand that that was the underlying reason. But if that's

00:09:50.260 the underlying reason and lots of stats and considerations were given in favour of that verdict,

00:09:58.900 that means that this judge appealed to rhetoric that other people aren't allowed to appeal to.

00:10:06.660 Yes, and ironically enough as well, this judge, Angela Tucker, if you look into her, I believe her

00:10:13.060 political affiliation's a GOP. She's a Republican as well, which meant above party affiliation,

00:10:19.220 there was a racial bias that went into this above principle. But if you take back to that

00:10:24.980 organisation, then it becomes a bit more interesting. If they're willing to ensure that the families shut up

00:10:31.860 and that their families have to abide by the lines that they've created, what prevents them from having

00:10:39.380 the similar discussions to judges or others to indicate that you would get preferment on your

00:10:47.140 political and or judicial wrong of power if you just made sure that this was quietened down and

00:10:54.820 calmed down in a different way? Just as there are those who argue that our judicial system has done so to

00:11:00.900 Lucy Connolly for example, no evidence for it, but when you have the dirty hand of secret government

00:11:08.820 agencies behind it, anything's possible, is it not? No, and certainly I've been reading a book recently

00:11:15.140 which is very, very interesting, which is, what's it called, Generation 68. Now the author is quite

00:11:21.620 controversial, but the actual information within the book, I've been verifying all of it as I go along,

00:11:27.540 and I will be using that information for projects in the future, goes into quite a lot of detail about

00:11:34.260 how the youth movements of the 1960s that erupted into all of this civil rights fervour back then,

00:11:40.100 which this department of the government goes into, were initially seeded in the late 1940s,

00:11:45.380 post-war and the 1950s, primarily by the Deep State State Department and the CIA of America.

00:11:53.380 And the reason for that seems to have been as a foreign policy outreach, so that countries that

00:11:59.860 were going to be separated from European imperial policy would be more likely to align themselves

00:12:06.660 with the US rather than the Soviets when they gained their independence, which the US was actively

00:12:11.700 hoping for as well. So they were ceding money to student associations, to radical feminists, Gloria Steinem,

00:12:18.980 she was paid by the CIA, and she was one of the first wave of feminists.

00:12:24.820 We've done that for a long time. MI6, we've got lots of that.

00:12:28.740 So there's the question of the 1960s, all of the civil rights movements and everything,

00:12:34.020 how much of any of it was ever organic, and not just cultural and regime-changed,

00:12:41.460 pushed by shadowy government organizations. So there's no doubt in my mind that they could

00:12:46.660 easily influence judges as well. In this case, it might have been that. I don't see as much

00:12:51.300 reason to believe that that might have been the case. I think that this was just a judge going

00:12:55.060 easy on the kid. Yeah, I'm probably right on that.

00:12:57.060 Harry, I've heard that the Civil Rights Act goes further than just arguing for equality of rights.

00:13:02.420 I've heard that there are some other things that lots of people don't know, which could be seen

00:13:07.700 as the progenitor of wokeness. Am I wrong?

00:13:10.420 Yes, there are arguments that can be made from that, from Christopher Caldwell's The Age of

00:13:15.620 Entitlement book. But mainly a lot of that stuff, I think, God forbid that I infer his name,

00:13:22.900 but Richard Hanania has a book on this called The Origins of Woke as well, which traces a lot of it

00:13:28.420 back to legal practice that was started from the Civil Rights Act. Taken on its face,

00:13:34.740 the actual text of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 doesn't have anything that's too disagreeable,

00:13:42.020 because it should apply equally to everybody. But interpretations from judges, extra departments,

00:13:49.060 and executive orders that were passed mainly by the late 60s and late 70s paved the way for modern

00:13:56.260 wokeness as a legal structure rather than just your ideology. We have this across the spectrum. The

00:14:02.180 Race Relations Act was pretty fine in the UK when that was initiated, one can understand it. It was

00:14:07.380 the amendments that have made the additional elements. The UN Refugee Convention, perfectly fine

00:14:11.940 in its initial, until it had the amendments, and then judicial activism and the extension. The extension

00:14:17.860 are very much 70s to 80s kind of growth periods among all of them. So, you know, going on here,

00:14:23.460 maybe that organisation has expanded and grown as well. Yeah, I would love to go into more detail

00:14:28.740 on this, but it's getting a bit off topic now. So, carrying on, just to remind everybody as well,

00:14:32.500 one of the people involved in this, a guy who decided to involve himself as the spokesperson

00:14:37.780 for Carmelo Anthony was Dominique Alexander. He showed up with this. And to remind everybody who

00:14:44.260 Dominique Alexander is, let me see if they've got a picture of him here. He's this gentleman on the

00:14:49.700 left. Here's a picture of Austin Metcalfe, the murdered boy. So, Minister Dominique Alexander was a

00:14:56.180 Dallas-based defund, the police activist and social justice leader. He'd been involved,

00:15:01.780 he was the head of an organisation called Next Generation Action Network, and there are some

00:15:06.020 allegations that you can find online that seem to be backed up pretty well, that that organisation

00:15:11.060 continually, subtly changes its name and reorganises itself every single time tax returns need to be

00:15:19.700 filed. So there seems to be possibly an element of scam there. They were the ones

00:15:25.780 involved in the defence and spokesperson. Alexander, it says here, his comments went viral across social

00:15:32.260 media. People started to look back upon his criminal record because there was lots of documentation

00:15:37.940 of local media reports of this guy's background. A Fox News digital review also exposed his long-time

00:15:44.180 support for defunding the police and his ties to former squad house democrat and defund the police

00:15:49.060 activist Cori Bush, who he was a big part in supporting at the time.

00:15:55.780 So, they say that in 2019, and I went over this at the time, but just a reminder of some of his

00:16:01.060 greatest hits, there was an arrest warrant affidavit for Alexander where his partner,

00:16:09.540 Kaira Saunders, had reported to the police that he had shoved her and tried to strangle her.

00:16:15.220 He had served two days in jail in 2021 after pleading guilty to a felony theft case. That

00:16:21.540 was a case of a judge going incredibly easy on him for two days. In 2016, he was sentenced to two

00:16:28.580 years in prison for repeatedly violating his probation. Of course, I don't believe he actually

00:16:34.020 served much, if any, of that time. Another local report from 2009 details how he was arrested for

00:16:40.340 allegedly causing serious head injuries to his then-girlfriend's two-year-old son while babysitting.

00:16:46.900 He initially told police that his, uh, that the boy had fallen off of the couch while he was in the

00:16:51.860 other room, but later admitted to shaking the child and the judge charged him with a first-degree felony.

00:16:57.700 Again, reports on how much time he may or may not have spent in prison for that.

00:17:01.940 He's a perfectly decent guy you'd love to bring home to your, you know, your family, wouldn't he?

00:17:06.500 Certainly the guy you would want representing you in a case where you're trying to present

00:17:10.740 yourself as being innocent. Of course, he has always stated that what's actually been happening

00:17:16.900 is that the evil white oppressor has been trying to keep him down, even in situations where he's

00:17:21.940 admitted to wrongdoing, and that's what he's trying to do with Carmelo Anthony as well. So,

00:17:26.820 the developments that have gone on since then are that the Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis

00:17:33.060 has announced that the grand jury has indicted Carmelo Anthony for first-degree murder in the

00:17:39.300 Frisco track meat stabbing of Austin Metcalf. So, the trial has not been scheduled yet, but that is

00:17:45.620 what he will be tried against, first-degree murder. Also, some of the interesting stuff that's gone on,

00:17:52.260 I wasn't aware of this at the time, but some publications like the Daily Mail and others

00:17:57.940 were given access to footage that had been captured of the incident. And in the Daily Mail write-up,

00:18:04.660 this post has just highlighted the most important stuff from it. They make the case that there was

00:18:10.740 no confrontation that should be beneficial to a self-defense plea for Carmelo Anthony. So they

00:18:18.500 describe Anthony is admitted to the stabbing, but maintains he acted in self-defense, claiming the

00:18:22.980 truth will come out. Initially, Frisco police said an altercation between the teens led to the violent

00:18:27.620 encounter, and there were all sorts of rumors going around that they were going to the same school

00:18:33.460 together, which was wrong. That they had known each other before, which was wrong. One of the big ones

00:18:39.220 that was going around was that they were going to school together, knew each other, and that Austin

00:18:42.900 Metcalfe was a long-time bully of Carmelo Anthony. That was completely wrong. Complete strangers

00:18:48.420 meeting for the very first time that day in this encounter, which ended up in murder.

00:18:53.220 Were there no witnesses there? There were quite a few witnesses,

00:18:56.180 which is where the affidavits and the police reports come from. And that's where you know that,

00:19:00.740 I mean, his brother was there. Austin Metcalfe's brother held him in his arms as he was dying.

00:19:05.300 It's pretty horrifying. And the police reports as well are where we get the reports of,

00:19:10.020 well, what happened was Carmelo Anthony came over, sat under there. People suspect, and I think this

00:19:15.620 is probably right, although it can't be proved, it's just suspicions, that the reason that Carmelo

00:19:21.380 Anthony had come under the tent in the first place was probably to steal from other people's backpacks

00:19:26.420 while they weren't looking. But, which is probably why he became so defensive when he was confronted

00:19:31.860 by Austin Metcalfe. But that's where we get the reports of when Austin approached him and confronted

00:19:38.020 him where we get Carmelo Anthony saying things like, come at me and see what happens, provoking

00:19:43.220 the incident to escalate. But carrying on, the footage reviewed by the Daily Mail at the Frisco

00:19:48.500 Independent School District's headquarters shows no obvious physical confrontation between the two

00:19:53.300 prior to the stabbing. Daily Mail did not detect anything that indicated chaos was about to ensue.

00:19:58.660 Strict guidelines were enforced for viewing the footage. Reporters were only permitted to take

00:20:02.100 handwritten notes and were barred from capturing or republishing stills or clips.

00:20:05.380 The district allowed limited release because the students' identities are not easily discernible in

00:20:10.260 the video. Captured by a high-angle camera position near the press box and typically used for football

00:20:14.660 broadcasts, the footage shows the tent at the top left of the screen. Students are sitting idly beneath

00:20:19.940 it, waiting for competition to start. Then seemingly out of nowhere, it becomes apparent that the moment

00:20:25.860 has happened when an armed Anthony attacked Metcalfe. The stabbing itself is not visible on camera,

00:20:31.220 but the reaction is immediate. Students are seen fleeing from under the tent. While police later

00:20:35.460 confirmed Anthony fled the scene, he cannot be clearly identified in the footage. So what they're

00:20:39.700 saying there, the footage that you can see, as much as it doesn't show that much, it doesn't show any

00:20:47.460 kind of major physical confrontation prior to the stabbing. Which leads me to believe that this

00:20:53.860 altercation was primarily, as would be suspected from the affidavits and the witness reports,

00:21:00.180 um, verbal. Until all of a sudden you're stabbed to death. Just saying, hey, this isn't your tent,

00:21:06.660 go away please. Bam, dead. It's as simple as that. And so Carmelo Anthony now, he's been on house

00:21:14.900 arrest since he was released on bond in April 14th. If convicted, he could face a possible sentence of

00:21:22.020 5 to 99 years or life in prison. In the Texas criminal system, 17-year-olds are considered

00:21:28.260 adults, which is why he's being charged. Anthony's attorney, Mike Howard, released a video statement

00:21:32.740 after the indictment saying, in part, Carmelo and his family are confident in the justice system and

00:21:36.980 the people of Collin County, to be fair and impartial. Of course, Carmelo looks forward to his day in

00:21:41.860 court because it's only in a trial that the full story can be heard and that impartial justice can

00:21:45.940 be done. We expect that when the full story is heard, the prosecution will not be able to rule

00:21:50.580 out the reasonable doubt that Carmelo Anthony may have acted in self-defense. So we're using a lot of

00:21:57.700 hedge words there. Reasonable doubt that he may- I understand that he is- Yeah, but I don't think you

00:22:02.100 can really use a knife for self-defense. Well, certainly in a situation like this- Not unless someone else has

00:22:06.180 got another knife or a gun being pointed at you. Yeah, all of the witness reports, even if it was going to

00:22:10.820 turn into a physical confrontation, it does sound like A, he was provoking a physical confrontation,

00:22:16.900 and B, he already had the knife with him in his backpack, which raises the question,

00:22:21.860 why did he bring that to school in the first place? I understand in America people are allowed

00:22:26.500 to carry weapons, but I'm pretty certain- I've read people reporting that even in schools,

00:22:31.220 you're not supposed to bring knives into school the same way you're not supposed to bring guns into

00:22:35.300 school. We do that in London now, and probably have it in Manchester and Nottingham and other

00:22:40.020 towns as well. I think the self-defense case is a stretch, but I understand that they've been

00:22:47.780 hired to defend him, so that's what they've got to do. The next step in the process will be assigning

00:22:52.020 a trial judge who will set a first appearance court date. That first appearance could be days,

00:22:55.860 weeks, or months down the road, so we'll see what happens. They also, in this on CBS News,

00:23:00.420 say that they looked at the surveillance footage, and they basically confirm what the Daily Mail said.

00:23:05.700 About 9.55, a sudden movement is seen under the tent, followed by interaction between two figures.

00:23:11.460 Frisco ISD officials said that this is the moment the stabbing occurred. Several people can be seen

00:23:15.780 walking or running away while others approach to the area. Once the arresting officer who got Anthony

00:23:21.060 said, I have the alleged suspect in custody, Anthony reportedly told the officer, I'm not alleged,

00:23:27.620 I did it. Anthony then said that Metcalfe put his hands on him after he asked him not to,

00:23:32.740 according to his affidavit, but all of the other witness reports say that he was provoking and

00:23:37.140 trying to get a rise, escalate the encounter. I have a legal question that maybe, Stephen,

00:23:43.140 you are the person to answer it, but in a case like that, wouldn't the defense be almost entirely

00:23:50.180 certain, centered around the notion of self-defense and also mitigating factors that could be

00:23:56.180 morally exculpatory, allegedly, from the side of the defense?

00:24:01.300 No, if you're looking at them from the side of the defense, the first thing they would do is

00:24:05.620 try to ensure that it wasn't you that was seen to be the person who actually committed the crime.

00:24:11.620 But in this case, there's too many witnesses, the self, you know, self-views,

00:24:15.300 and he's admitted it. So then they have very limited opportunities there to kind of mitigate

00:24:22.980 what they've done other than say it's self-defense. So that would be the first thing that we'd do.

00:24:26.740 And then what you would go on then is try and find out evidence to try and suggest that he was

00:24:32.420 attacked. The big difficulties, and shifting now to the prosecutory side, is that, you know,

00:24:38.180 the chap has a knife. Self-defense is permissible if you're being attacked. But the question is then,

00:24:44.820 can you use a knife to stab someone? When we look at cases here, when we had the farmer who shot two

00:24:51.380 burglars in the house, was it possible to shoot them when they were coming into the house? So the

00:24:56.420 question of being able to use a physical weapon like a gun or a knife is not always a very clear-cut

00:25:01.140 case of saying it's self-defense. There has to be something much stronger to suggest that you can use that.

00:25:06.500 Then the other aspects they'll be looking at is whether it's negligence,

00:25:10.500 so that they can turn around and say, look, this is manslaughter. What we're trying to look at is

00:25:14.580 manslaughter. There was no intention to kill. So murder is, in terms of the UK, malice of fourth

00:25:21.540 war, is about the intention that you're going to either recklessly or intentionally kill someone. I think

00:25:27.540 what they'll go here is try and say that this is a fight that's occurred. It was self-defense,

00:25:33.620 unfortunately he has a knife, therefore it's not murder one in American terms, but it'll go down to the

00:25:38.980 equivalent of what is manslaughter in the UK. So he reacted badly. It was all, it was just,

00:25:45.540 it wasn't with the intention to kill him, it was a reaction. And that's what I think the secondary

00:25:50.340 element will be, and all the evidence around it will be to try and work that. The question for the

00:25:54.820 prosecution is how to show that maybe by having the knife, maybe by the way that he created the

00:26:02.980 the fight or the kind of interaction that he intended to harm there and then. So it's up to

00:26:08.340 you, the jury, to decide whether he intended to kill that person then or whether it was negligence,

00:26:13.540 and therefore, or in this case, a self-defense that led to manslaughter, but the self-defense claim

00:26:18.980 fails. I mean, personally, given the evidence that we currently have access to, obviously the

00:26:24.580 prosecution has taken about two and a half months at this point to gather as much evidence as they can,

00:26:29.780 but the evidence that we as the public have access to, it looks like it'll be a very very difficult

00:26:35.460 case for the defense to make from where I'm sitting, because all of the evidence, in my opinion,

00:26:42.020 points to the idea that Carmelo Anthony, whatever his intentions were going under that tent,

00:26:47.300 provoked a situation where he knew he had a weapon and then stabbed Austin Metcalf completely out of

00:26:53.060 proportion with any threat that he may have felt, which again was brought on himself by the fact that

00:26:58.740 he was provoking it. So as far as I'm concerned, morally speaking, Carmelo Anthony is clearly and

00:27:05.780 obviously guilty and has unnecessarily murdered a promising young man.

00:27:12.500 There you go. Do you want the mouse? Thank you very much, brother Harry.

00:27:19.140 Thank you, brother Stelios. We've got two rumble rants here from $5 from Hiro Sanichiban,

00:27:27.860 which is a fed post, so thank you for the $5, and $2 from the Engage for you saying,

00:27:33.060 thank god I love this story arc of Harry as the bringer of just this reigning condign fury down on

00:27:38.980 the miscreants. We need a big bronze statue of him swinging a flaming sword at the troublemakers.

00:27:45.300 Thank you for that. I wish there was more that I could do other than screaming into the void.

00:27:49.540 Right, so everyone is happy. Lots of things happened, but also nothing happened and everyone

00:27:59.540 gets constantly confirmed because most people are in information bubbles. And in a way I'm going to

00:28:05.780 talk about the narrative wars between MAGA and the fake MAGA and how lots of people are trying to spin

00:28:12.660 the narrative and have engaged in very irresponsible commentary that I think in some cases we could

00:28:20.020 call cope, but things are ongoing. So the first thing to do when it comes to geopolitical commentary

00:28:27.700 is to not listen to responsible voices. That's why the best antidote is to have our own show about it.

00:28:35.140 And we have Firas Modad, one of the new members of our team, who has his own show, Real Politique.

00:28:42.580 It launched two days ago. Definitely give it a watch. He is going to be talking about geopolitics

00:28:48.740 and he has very interesting things to say. And a lot of the conversations I've had with

00:28:53.140 Firas off camera have been very illuminating and he's definitely a voice that should be listened to.

00:29:01.060 Right, so everyone's happy. Iranian expats in Toronto are celebrating. You can see here the flag they have

00:29:08.820 with the lion. Also we see here the Iranians with the flags of the Islamic Republic are also happy and

00:29:17.620 they're celebrating a victory. We have here Sahar Emami saying the people of Iran are celebrating victory

00:29:24.340 in war. Mashallah. Allah grants success to those Muslims who hold firmly to the rope of Allah.

00:29:31.140 I'm happy that she's alive because I really want to watch the next season of her show.

00:29:35.700 The last one ended with a bang. So definitely watch it. It definitely ended with a cliffhanger and

00:29:46.820 you know just you can't beat this. You can't have a more explosive studio. So

00:29:50.660 I'm glad that she's going to come back and continue this. I'm just beginning to worry about us now.

00:29:56.340 J.D. Vance is very happy. He says, I wonder if other VPs had as much excitement as I do.

00:30:02.580 He's laughing. Yeah. He must have access to lots of interesting stuff. I am willing to bet.

00:30:11.380 I do like, if you go back, just quickly look at that. Sorry, just Donald Trump Jr. Yeah,

00:30:16.260 slightly different than your predecessor who was VP of visiting angels.

00:30:22.340 Also, now I'm going to make lots of people unhappy. John Bolton is happy. Says, well,

00:30:28.260 let me say this unequivocally. I think President Trump made the right decision for America.

00:30:33.140 And I think we're on the verge of potentially seeing regime change in Iran as part of that.

00:30:37.140 It was a decisive action. It was the right thing to do. Who else? Now, it looks like...

00:30:42.820 It is entertaining though from what you're saying here that everybody seems to think that they won.

00:30:47.780 And there are differing reasons for that because a lot of the action taken over the past few days,

00:30:53.140 which seems to have de-escalated the conflict for now, I don't know if we're at the end of this.

00:30:59.780 And I think anybody declaring that this is the end of all hostilities between Israel and Iran is

00:31:06.340 looking on much shorter time scales than they should be. But the actions taken seem to have been an

00:31:12.020 attempt by everybody to save face in a way, which is why America and Iran have been exchanging phone

00:31:18.580 calls saying, listen, buddy, this is what we're going to do. Just make sure that nobody's around.

00:31:23.460 Love you too. Bye bye. Kiss, kiss. And Iran's gone. Love you too, babes. We're also going to fire

00:31:28.340 some missiles. Make sure that nothing is right. We're going to throw missiles at our friends.

00:31:33.300 The show must go on. I mean, we don't really know for sure whether Fordo has been damaged in any

00:31:39.300 major way. There seems to be reports that the enriched uranium that was being held there had been

00:31:44.900 evacuated prior to that, as well as the centrifuges that were used in the enrichment process in the

00:31:53.620 first place, also seemed to have been evacuated. And a few days after we hit them with the bunker

00:31:58.180 busters or the US did, Israel was firing more missiles at the entrance to it, which suggests

00:32:05.380 that at least on the Israeli intelligence side that they believe that either it wasn't damaged

00:32:09.620 enough or there wasn't damage at all. So there's a lot up in the air and a lot of the media reporting

00:32:15.940 seems to have been very biased towards whichever side you're on. Iran's media are saying,

00:32:20.900 we did it, guys. We proved that Israel isn't impenetrable. We got through the Iron Dome.

00:32:26.100 We did them damage. That's enough for us. And America is saying, we did it, guys. We de-escalated

00:32:31.780 the situation. Now, jobs done. Mission accomplished. And I think this is only the beginning of what could

00:32:40.900 happen in the future, especially when I think of everybody there. John Bolton is probably the most

00:32:45.300 correct because Iran is positioned to regime change now.

00:32:50.500 I think that was the whole game.

00:32:52.020 I think I agree very much with two things you said. Number one, no one is certain. That's why

00:32:58.580 this segment is a criticism of many people who were absolutely certain that there was going to be

00:33:03.540 World War III. And the other bit that we are looking at the timeframes, which is definitely true.

00:33:09.780 So all we are saying is what we know with the evidence that we have, or with the sources that

00:33:14.740 we have up to now. Tomorrow, things may change. We may be talking about a very different world. But

00:33:20.180 the fight between Israel and Iran may go along, but it looks like that a US invasion of Iran looks

00:33:29.460 less likely by the day. Well, as I covered last week, the strategic goals of the US and Israel themselves

00:33:37.300 do not seem to have changed. Israel for a long time has wanted regime change in Iran. America has

00:33:44.980 Washington think tank policy papers going back to 2009.

00:33:51.220 And Netanyahu, as we showed last week.

00:33:53.220 Yeah. Talking about how to do regime change. And even in those policy papers,

00:33:58.100 there was a discussion of internal regime change alongside an illusion of diplomacy going on to make

00:34:05.300 it appear on the international stage as though America was doing everything that it could to

00:34:09.620 prevent that. So I think in the long term, Israel, the US, their foreign policy establishment still

00:34:16.020 want regime change in Iran. I think it's happening. That's my concern is that, you know, whatever they've

00:34:22.580 done is this prerequisite of bombing. The way that they've allowed Israel to go through all the

00:34:28.500 different countries in the Middle East as the forefront. And we've seen it in Syria. We didn't

00:34:34.020 think, many of us didn't think that the Syrians would fall. We thought they'd survive, particularly

00:34:38.260 with the support of Russia and maybe an element and tangentially of China. And we're in that position

00:34:44.420 now where we think in Iran, I suspect that with the numbers of people they've killed, the numbers of

00:34:48.980 people they've turned. I think that a lot of people may want regime change. The question is what they're

00:34:55.060 going to do about it. So, for instance, you could say that lots of people would say that I'm not going to

00:35:02.580 talk about the problem of Islamization of Europe on Monday and then on Tuesday cry if Islamists have no nukes.

00:35:12.020 So you could say the question is what you're doing about it. And what I want to say is that the people

00:35:17.780 who were absolutely certain that the US was going to invade Iran seem to be wrong so far. They were

00:35:26.020 absolutely certain that Trump was a neocon and it turns that they are wrong so far. The MAGA crowd is

00:35:33.220 very happy. It seems like we have a New York Post here. MAGA voters overwhelmingly support the US

00:35:39.620 strikes on Iranian military. You see also another thing from Washington Times, Trump tests the limits

00:35:47.700 of MAGA faithful by bombing Iran. But also if you scroll down a bit, there's stuff here we have also

00:35:56.820 by political MAGA largely falls in line on Trump's Iran strike. So it looks like most of MAGA thought

00:36:04.100 that this was a surgical hit, just like the hit Trump did on Soleimani when he was during his first

00:36:12.420 presidency, when he ordered it during his first presidency. So just I wanted to mention something

00:36:19.780 regarding the neocon comment that you made there. Whether or not Trump is a neocon, I think one of the

00:36:27.700 worries that people have are regarding the factions that he surrounds himself with. Because of course

00:36:33.380 it wasn't purely neocons or people part of the Israel lobby who helped him in 2016 and in 2024

00:36:41.460 to win the presidency. There were lots of different factions, but if you look over the past six months

00:36:46.820 since the beginning of his administration, the technoglobalist types, the Elon Musk, the tech bros,

00:36:53.620 they've been majorly alienated recently with Elon Musk having his big crash out. We'll see how that

00:36:58.900 develops in the future if they manage to rebuild that bridge, but that seems closed off at the

00:37:03.780 moment. There was also a part of the coalition where people like Tulsi Gabbard and many of the

00:37:09.620 libertarians that he brought onto his side as well, the Thomas Masseys, who were voting for him on this

00:37:15.380 kind of promise. Whether it was actually reflected in most of his campaign or not, people like to pick

00:37:20.100 and choose Trump's statements and determine and kind of go from a single statement what they think

00:37:25.780 Trump is, right? But they were going off of this promise that Trump would have no new wars, they

00:37:30.020 saw Tulsi Gabbard and other appointments as kind of a promise towards that. They've been put off by

00:37:35.700 this recent action, so I think one of the worries is the only people who have been pleased by Trump's

00:37:40.980 actions over the past few weeks, the only people he's kept happy, have been the neocons and they are

00:37:46.900 one of the remaining factions around him. Looks like a lot of MAGA people are happy

00:37:52.740 because they see this as a surgical hit. Maybe. Just like he did on Soleimani and lots of people

00:37:59.300 were happy with it. Do you not think that the kind of embarrassing sentence that he put on

00:38:04.740 Air Force One about Tulsi Gabbard, I don't really give a damn what she thinks, is I believe that the

00:38:11.860 weapons, the nuclear bombs were capable of being done within weeks. I think that goes to the question

00:38:19.220 of who is actually advising him. It goes to the question whose intelligence he regards as most

00:38:25.620 important. And that's why when you look at, whenever you have a situation like this, whether it's in

00:38:32.260 geopolitics, whether it's in local politics, who are the winners? Ask yourself who benefits from this.

00:38:37.780 Yes. Clearly Israel benefits from this, but who benefits from being on Israel's side? And that's

00:38:43.780 Rubio. Rubio now has gained a level of influence and power that pushes him towards potentially being

00:38:50.660 the next president to take on Vance. Vance has been shifted into a direction that he would not

00:38:56.260 necessarily wanted to have, which is that. So you're all gearing up for what's going down the line.

00:39:01.060 We also have very strange actions like Mark Levin being appointed by Trump and Kristi Noem to the

00:39:09.540 Department of Homeland Security Council as well, as an advisor. And he seems to be very,

00:39:17.620 very in favour of further action, like many of the neocon types are. But either way,

00:39:23.460 that's just, I just wanted to add that. I don't want to derail this anymore, Stelius. Apologies.

00:39:27.940 Thank you.

00:39:28.820 Right. So there are several narratives that are circulating right now. In one respect,

00:39:33.620 you could say there are as many narratives as people, but I want to focus on two narratives.

00:39:39.060 And I'll be very critical of the latter without being excessively critical of people that are

00:39:45.140 in some ways associated with it. I think some of them are, in a way,

00:39:49.220 are okay-ish, but others perhaps are a bit weird. But let me put it this way. So we have one narrative

00:40:00.100 that tries to present what happened as a sort of clash between MAGA people and neocons. And

00:40:06.260 Donald Trump Jr. is one of the persons who is following this agenda a lot. He's pursuing this

00:40:11.300 narrative. And he says that he will work to keep war hawks and neocons from infiltrating

00:40:16.820 Donald Trump's cabinet. Right. And I want to talk about the other side, the side that was

00:40:24.020 absolutely certain that any kind of hit or strike on Iranian nuclear sites was going to result in World

00:40:32.580 War III. They were based this on, I would say, lots of them based this on Tucker Carlson's claim

00:40:40.020 during the middle of March. Candace Owens says that she trusts Tucker Carlson a lot. Lots of people do. So

00:40:47.700 Tucker has somewhat watered it down. But let me just tell you what he wrote. He said

00:40:54.740 on March 17, it's worth pointing out that a strike on the Iranian nuclear sites will almost certainly

00:41:01.140 result in thousands of American deaths at bases throughout the Middle East and cost the United

00:41:06.900 States tens of billions of dollars. The costs of future acts of terrorism on American soil

00:41:13.060 may be even higher. Those errant guesses, those are the Pentagon's own estimates. A bombing campaign

00:41:19.620 against Iran will set off a war and it will be America's war. Don't let the propagandists lie to

00:41:25.460 you. Now, I want to say two things that strike me. First of all, Tucker does seem to me to be very

00:41:31.860 clever to put the word almost before certainly. That said, when he says a bombing campaign will

00:41:40.500 set off a war, he seems to be a bit more certain. Let's say he doesn't, he seems to forget that clause.

00:41:46.420 And also when he says those are the Pentagon's own estimates, I struggle to believe that people

00:41:52.260 on in the Pentagon, all of them have the same idea that there is a consensus about it. But I may be

00:41:59.700 wrong. Whatever. Yeah, I think what we saw more than anything was that Iran doesn't want a war,

00:42:07.300 which is why they were doing the strikes to save face, but making sure that there was plenty

00:42:13.060 of awareness in advance that the strikes were going to happen on American bases to make sure

00:42:18.420 that nobody died. And here at some point on the 16th of June, Trump said, somebody please explain to

00:42:25.140 Kuki Tucker Carlson that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Right. Here we have Marjorie

00:42:32.740 Taylor Greene, adamant that the US is entering a nuclear war, World War Three. Let us play this a bit.

00:42:42.020 Have you lost the mouse? It's down.

00:42:43.140 There it is. Let us listen to it.

00:42:45.540 I'll tell you what, six months in, six months in, see, and here we are turning back on the campaign

00:42:52.660 promises and we bombed Iran on behalf of Israel. Yes, it was on behalf of Israel. We're entering a

00:43:00.500 nuclear war, World War Three, because the entire world is going to erupt. And you want to know the

00:43:06.820 people that are cheering it on right now? Their tune is going to drastically change. The minute we start

00:43:12.340 seeing flag draped coffins on the nightly news, on Fox News that brainwashes all the baby boomers,

00:43:18.660 and on CNN that brainwashes all the Democrat baby boomers. And that is exactly how this is going to go

00:43:24.580 down. And I think, as I said on X, we should all put World War Three survivors on our CVs.

00:43:33.540 Maybe. I mean, I don't think she's wrong in terms of the way that Fox and CNN put their kind of media

00:43:39.060 show for everybody. They are convincing people in a very determined way. And that fits the agenda

00:43:46.660 of the neocons and the warmongers, to have it in that way.

00:43:49.940 Well, there could be overlapping interests in some cases. It's not the case that, for instance,

00:43:54.980 I struggle to think that the neocons were against what the MAGA people were pro when it came to Soleimani,

00:44:04.260 the surgical hit. And in the spirit of, in the spirit of, sorry, I just lost my mind there.

00:44:13.780 Let's go to, in the spirit of what Harry said before, now I remembered it. What I take issue with

00:44:20.260 is the absolute certainty that there was going to be a war and that Trump was a neocon and Trump did

00:44:27.860 go back to his promise and the panic that resulted afterwards. And I will say lots of people made

00:44:35.460 several clicks and posts, impressions, and they got lots of Elon backs along the way.

00:44:40.820 Right. So here, let's go to Dave Smith, who rushed again to use this propaganda, according to which

00:44:48.660 World War Three is just inevitable. And that's what I want to caution people against when people take

00:44:53.540 their opinions as facts. Let us hear what he said here. And so, yeah, Donald Trump looks,

00:45:00.500 and man, I supported him this last year. I apologize for doing so. It was a bad calculation.

00:45:06.260 At the time, it seemed like the right one. But he should be impeached and removed for this one.

00:45:11.300 And not on some ridiculous Nancy Pelosi. Of course, the Congress will never do it because

00:45:16.740 they're all a bunch of corrupt hacks.

00:45:18.660 This is the one thing they support. This is like, yeah.

00:45:21.540 Donald Trump should be impeached and removed for this. All of his supporters should turn on him.

00:45:25.780 It's the absolute betrayal of everything that he ran and campaigned on and everything that he stood

00:45:30.660 for. And I will say, despite the fact that Donald Trump supporters have been labeled like a cult

00:45:37.460 following, and that certainly is true for a percentage of his supporters, he is going to

00:45:42.340 lose his coalition over this. I don't just speak for myself, but I say there are a lot of us who

00:45:49.220 simply will not go along with this. So it's just a devastating mistake, by the way.

00:45:53.860 I think he's making some interesting points in terms of that. First of all, he's wrong to say that

00:45:59.220 Donald Trump should be impeached. He has the authority and power to be able to make those decisions and to

00:46:05.700 even do a surgical bombing of a particular position in another country. It's nothing that

00:46:10.500 other presidents have done. We've seen it from Clinton, Obama, all the rest of it.

00:46:14.340 Whether we agree with it is different. Does he feel that this will

00:46:18.820 concern a kind of friction of factional changes within the MAGA movement? I do think it's going

00:46:24.340 to be that, because it goes beyond just the idea of saying we're actually having a war. The whole

00:46:29.540 purpose of Donald Trump was that he will keep out of any conflict, and by doing so he looks like he's

00:46:38.020 acting on behalf of Israel in doing this. Let's not take the arguments that we agree or disagree with

00:46:44.500 Iran. Do we think they actually were close to the bomb? That's a different argument altogether.

00:46:48.660 There's plenty of evidence to say they didn't. There's plenty of evidence to say this has been

00:46:52.180 planned for a long time. The key point, though, is whether he has breached that trust with the MAGA movement,

00:46:58.660 who a lot of them believed that that was a man that would never go into any conflict at all and risk

00:47:05.860 America. Again, I'll go back to the surgical hit thing. He ran on a no forever wars campaign.

00:47:12.660 That's correct. But he didn't run on a no surgical hit campaign. And that is also correct.

00:47:16.980 So lots of people focused on this narrative, according to which Trump is a neocon. Here we

00:47:23.300 have a small account that says this, but I think this account puts it well, descriptively,

00:47:30.660 as far as the narrative is concerned. Trump has genuinely transformed MAGA and America First into

00:47:35.220 fully neocon movements. We have here by Robert Griffin III, Donald Trump just started World War

00:47:41.620 3 by bombing Iran. Pray for us all. We have here Dom Luka, who basically started saying,

00:47:48.580 if you posted this photo, you might be cooked for a few days. Talking about a meme, according to which

00:47:55.780 Trump is going to unleash his inner Bush W and Dick Cheney. But what is interesting is that also Dom

00:48:02.980 Luka was saying we are going to war. I'm done.

00:48:05.620 He did the exact same thing with the people he was against.

00:48:12.580 What is Dom Luka's account? I don't really understand it.

00:48:18.100 It's a breaker narrative.

00:48:19.300 Yeah, because he would be like, oh, you have been selected. And he would name some random person

00:48:24.180 and then nothing. He would break the narrative. I don't understand what his account is for.

00:48:29.540 Right. So something that was very funny, I found that hilarious. So it had to be with the Hodge twins.

00:48:35.300 And what they wrote on X and what they wrote on Facebook, on X, they said, basically,

00:48:40.980 looks like the panicans were right. The neocons got US bombs dropped on Iran for Israel like they

00:48:46.580 wanted. There's nothing exciting about war. The only thing we can do is now pray for peace.

00:48:51.460 And pray this doesn't escalate. We're proud that we spoke up against war. And on X, they said,

00:48:59.860 President Trump just unleashed American might, ordering a devastating attack on Iran's nuclear

00:49:06.100 site of Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan, crushing their dangerous ambitions. For 14 years, Trump's been

00:49:12.100 crystal clear Iran cannot have nukes and is followed through with a historic strike that's got the world

00:49:17.940 in all. You get the idea.

00:49:19.460 I mean, you could see in the replies that they'd posted that they have somebody else

00:49:24.180 running their social media accounts on all the other platforms rather than just Twitter.

00:49:28.660 And you can tell just looking at that, OK, that's something that some PR social media

00:49:33.380 manager put together with all of the with all the emojis and stuff. But yeah, maybe double check

00:49:38.100 your messaging. Yeah, maybe just actually it's yours. So therefore, you're in control of it,

00:49:43.780 in charge of it. That's amazing.

00:49:45.220 Yeah, I will send this allegedly person, this person who allegedly represents MAGA.

00:49:51.700 And this is Robert Barnes posted this. Scorpion Netanyahu behind Trump.

00:49:56.980 It's an old story, isn't it? It's a good old story.

00:49:59.860 Very good old story.

00:50:01.140 Let's see what's going to happen now. Trump seemed very unhappy with with both Iran and Israel.

00:50:07.060 Yeah, no, there's no doubt. I think the the F word, but also what went on before

00:50:10.900 he was pretty, pretty unhappy about it.

00:50:12.980 And now I do like, I do like this.

00:50:14.740 The Hodgeway, the Hodgeway, no, I'm not going to play, but the Hodgewines do now go on the other

00:50:19.940 side. They take this from Casino and they have where the Italian is talking to the someone allegedly

00:50:27.620 Robert De Niro's Jewish character. Yeah.

00:50:30.500 So they went to the other side.

00:50:32.660 There are reports from presidents going back to Carter that, like, at one point during every

00:50:38.100 presidency, Israel will just piss you off. Having to deal with them is apparently infuriating.

00:50:44.100 And I'll wrap it up a bit because I'm cautious about time. I think this is the biggest cope

00:50:50.420 I've seen. Jason Whitlock says, response to Gillian Anderson, who said everyone who decided to jump

00:50:57.220 off the Trump bandwagon this week looks real dumb right now. Jason Whitlock responds respectfully

00:51:03.380 disagree. MTG, Alex Jones, Tucker, et cetera, put enough pressure on President Trump and Israel to

00:51:09.700 make a ceasefire for now the only option.

00:51:12.340 So what I think this is, it's beyond dumb. But the point is that Jason Whitlock is not dumb. And I think

00:51:21.380 that lots of people are hiding behind this because they are erecting a new cultist way of looking at

00:51:27.780 things according to which Trump is a neocon. And all that prevents Trump from unleashing his inner Dick

00:51:36.820 Cheney is being on the content meal of people like that. So sorry, I think that this presupposes

00:51:46.100 that Trump has betrayed MAGA and people who continue doing this rather than saying, right,

00:51:51.060 it looks like we were a bit more, it looks like we were thinking a bit too fast. They seem to be

00:51:57.220 forwarding a narrative which is presupposing that Trump has already betrayed MAGA and that they are

00:52:03.140 the real MAGA and they try to co-opt it. I mean, for me, I think this is all part of American

00:52:08.100 foreign policy which stretches out far beyond Donald Trump. I don't think it's changed, you're

00:52:12.660 right. I agree. Personally, I don't think Donald Trump was in that much of control. I'm glad that

00:52:19.220 the situation has de-escalated. But Donald Trump's own statements on the subject changed from day to day.

00:52:25.780 It was very, very confusing. If there was a plan to trust, I'm struggling to see what it was.

00:52:31.940 But also some of these people, and that's why I'm particularly annoyed that this narrative,

00:52:37.620 not only is it particularly dangerous, lots of them rush to say everyone who disagrees with us

00:52:44.340 is a neocon shill. And I'll just...

00:52:48.420 I think there's a depth to this. I mean, the very clear argument that Trump really didn't want to

00:52:55.380 have any sort of war in the Middle East, I think that's been part of his DNA on there. He surrounded

00:53:00.340 himself as part of a coalition that he thought was going to work on this. But once he's in power,

00:53:05.380 just as he was like last time, the strength of the warmongers, the neocons, the deep state,

00:53:10.020 the military industrial complex is so powerful that they've been able to manipulate from behind

00:53:15.700 the scenes. The fact that Rubio is up there with such strength, and there are others within the

00:53:19.700 cabinet, that all they've done is being able to just push this agenda. In addition to the fact that he

00:53:25.780 received $100 million in terms of his campaign from some of his supporters who were very,

00:53:30.820 very pro-Israel, that he's then been under pressure to be able to respond to that. And I suspect that

00:53:37.780 the bombing of the kind of Fordo and the others was just an attempt for him to be able to now do a

00:53:44.100 PR stunt to say, look, this is my view. I've not left you, Maga. I don't want to have a war. But I go

00:53:52.020 along with yourself. That this is a continuation of a long-term strategy by those neocons and the

00:53:59.300 warmongers to ensure that we've got regime change all the way across, and that's what's going to

00:54:04.340 happen in Iran. Coming or otherwise, that regime change will happen unless China steps in. I have

00:54:09.860 no great love for the IRGC or the Mullers. My main fear, as with any kind of regime change in the

00:54:15.940 Middle East, is that, like the past 30 years, it goes terribly wrong and results in floods. We suffer

00:54:21.060 from it. You're correct. America doesn't suffer from it. Europe and Britain suffers from it. And

00:54:26.740 I think Trump knows this and I think he bets on the following contingency. The best way for there

00:54:35.700 to be a regime change that is stable is from the inside, is from the Iranians themselves. That's why

00:54:41.140 I think most probably he will honor his promise. And I'll just end with this, that people should be

00:54:48.900 very careful with respect to who they are following and who they are listening to. I'm very tired of the

00:54:55.540 mainstream media propaganda and the propaganda that they have been trying to sell to all of us.

00:55:00.900 I'm not going to rush to any kind of anti-propaganda that says the exact opposite thing. I want to be,

00:55:06.660 I want to think clearly and I want to, I want everyone to take things with a pinch of salt. So

00:55:13.060 thank you very much. All right, we've got quite a few rumble rants from that. If we want to go through

00:55:17.140 a few quickly. Wesley1924 says, Trump is a wild card, but I think it's better than politicians who

00:55:24.260 double down on bad ideas to avoid looking weak. Pretty true. AD. A drunk change thing. After 25

00:55:31.620 years in the sandbox, most techotypes have a reasonable fear of just one quick air airstrike,

00:55:36.980 bro. Trump doing gambo diplomacy without 10 years of nation building is new to them.

00:55:41.860 Yeah. And I think with Tucker. That's a fair point.

00:55:43.780 You've got to remember with Tucker that he has admitted in that Ted Cruz interview to having been

00:55:48.740 a cheerleader for the Iraq war a few, um, a few decades ago. So I think he's very wary of

00:55:54.420 repeating his own mistakes, which is why I didn't particularly focus on him. And despite the fact

00:55:59.460 that I'm generally. That's a random name. We can't read that one. Can I read this one though?

00:56:03.220 Uh, the Bene Gesserit informed the emperor that the Fremen were weeks away from having atomics.

00:56:08.100 The bombing of their sitchers brought great joy to the imperial court. The spice must flow.

00:56:14.100 Spice is the most valuable substance in the universe.

00:56:17.700 We've got a few from Sigilstone as well, if you'd want to read those.

00:56:20.580 Yeah, I like that.

00:56:22.580 Okay. So, uh, Sigilstone17 says, Trump's partisans are happy along with the neocons and Zionists.

00:56:28.980 It says, awful lot of overlap between all three, but why the MAGA is not happy? We didn't want this.

00:56:33.700 Sigilstone17 also says, Trump's going to look like a massive fool for this strike.

00:56:39.380 These people don't even just stop and sign an agreement. Bolton wouldn't be happy if a fuse

00:56:43.540 didn't get lit. Trump done effed up. And it remains to be seen. I do think a fuse has been lit,

00:56:50.820 but I think the most of the rest of the action is going to be in the Middle East and probably

00:56:55.460 internally within Iran from this point onwards. The engaged few says, Trump understands that in real

00:57:02.420 politic nations don't have to fight actual wars as long as they're seen by their people as

00:57:06.660 defending the nation's interests. And this other one from Sigilstone is related to my segment.

00:57:12.740 Murder One requires pre-planning. Pretty impossible to mount a self-defense claim against

00:57:17.140 Murder One because they have evidence of his intent. And I would imagine with Carmelo Anthony,

00:57:21.620 that's why the prosecution has taken two and a half months to gather all of the evidence

00:57:25.780 for what appears to be an open and shut case, because they want it to be very tight.

00:57:32.420 Well, thanks, Dallas. What we've got here is we're looking like we're having a really big

00:57:39.380 American day. It's not July the 4th, so for some reason we're all concentrating on that. And that's

00:57:46.420 because there's so many big, interesting stories. And like what we've just been discussing about the

00:57:51.940 geopolitics of the world and Iran and Middle East, Israel, the United States, Europe, all of that,

00:58:00.180 how it impacts us in the future and whether we do have a World War Three, that is all being dealt

00:58:04.820 with. If you look at the new freemium by Firas Modat on RealPolitik, he really starts to give you

00:58:12.020 the opportunity through his episodes to try and understand the backgrounds to where all these big

00:58:17.620 ideas are coming from, who the big players are, what the big philosophical and future concepts are going

00:58:23.940 to be and really where the battles are in the future. So as we're discussing this, I think if you

00:58:29.380 look at RealPolitik with Firas Modat, you'll start to understand a little bit more and in depth of some

00:58:35.620 of these big discussions we have on our shows. And in one of those, we come down to a little bit more

00:58:41.300 of rather than a global politics, really an internal politics that's been happening in the US.

00:58:47.540 Trump got into power, as we know, with a big decision making to change and rip the kind of

00:58:54.260 consensus away from immigration, close the borders, which is done in the southern border and the one

00:58:59.940 with Canada very quickly, and start to move to deportations. He has backed down to a certain extent

00:59:07.060 on the deportations of those people in the retail sector and farming. He's allowing them because

00:59:12.340 of the pressure of big corporates and certainly some of the largest food corporations, the big

00:59:18.500 farmers. Don't forget, there's only four companies that effectively control about 80% of our food in

00:59:23.380 the West, and three of them are in the United States with their big farms, and they've got a lot

00:59:27.860 of power because they want cheap farm labor. He's backed down on that, but where he hasn't backed down so

00:59:33.300 far, is in terms of removing those he regards as criminals, or those he regards as threats of the

00:59:40.260 state, and calls them internal terrorists, acting on behalf of others. And in one of those particular

00:59:47.940 cases, there was a deportation that was blocked by a Boston judge. As the migrants were, I like the way

00:59:56.660 that Yahoo News puts it here as migrants, but the illegal migrants, because they were all illegal,

01:00:01.700 they hadn't actually got their passports and the ability to... I don't think a shipping container

01:00:06.100 is the typical safe pathway. No, no, they were all on a plane, and they were all being flown out to

01:00:12.100 South Sudan, in this particular instance, bypass as it goes here. They were on a deportation flight

01:00:18.420 bound initially for South Sudan, and now they're being stuck in a naval base in Djibouti, and they're

01:00:26.100 all in a converted shipping container, three of the ICE individuals. And the reason why they did that

01:00:33.060 is you'd think it's they've been arrested, ICE have got them, they've all had their ability to

01:00:39.460 be challenged, although they say they haven't. And then a district judge by the name of Brian E.

01:00:44.580 Murthy, based in Boston, who was overseeing a lawsuit challenging the immigration efforts to

01:00:51.380 swiftly remove these migrants. Does that kind of seem like a standard thing that we face here in

01:00:56.820 the UK, just as we're getting them onto a plane to Rwanda, as we're trying to deport someone?

01:01:01.460 Along come the lawyers into a court, and at the last minute say these murderers and abusers can't

01:01:07.700 leave. Well, that's exactly what happened here. This is pretty normal where a judge will just

01:01:12.980 step in and say, no, you can't do that. And whether or not they have a legal leg to stand on

01:01:17.300 doesn't matter as much as the fact that they can just indefinitely delay with bogus legal

01:01:23.860 challenges again and again and again any of the sort of removal of these people.

01:01:27.860 And that's what we have here. Absolutely agree. So we have a judge who's now going to become quite

01:01:32.740 famous as Judge Brian E. Murphy for lots of different reasons, because his order there that

01:01:38.900 he had you had to delay, he gave two orders in fact, but one of them was that you must return these

01:01:44.420 and swiftly bring the eight migrants back. And they come from Cuba, Vietnam, from the East African

01:01:49.300 nation back to the US. So the Department of Justice appealed, and they appealed to the highest court

01:01:56.980 of the land, the Supreme Court. And they won, basically. The Supreme Court said, no, we're going to lift the

01:02:06.340 limits on the deportations to third party countries. There were three liberal justices that dissented,

01:02:13.140 and one of them is quite important to put down there if it's in there, and that is Judge Sotomayor.

01:02:19.060 It'll come back to this. She regarded her colleagues as rewarding lawlessness. That's nice, isn't it?

01:02:26.100 There you are, a team of Supreme Courts. I disagree with you, but you're rewarding lawlessness. And the

01:02:32.900 lawlessness apparently appears to be that Trump is actually trying to get rid of violent criminals.

01:02:40.740 And she says, apparently, the court finds that the idea that thousands will suffer violence in

01:02:46.660 far-flung locales more palatable than the remote possibility that a district court exceeded its

01:02:52.020 remedial powers when ordered the government to provide notice and process to which the plaintiffs are

01:02:57.620 constitutionally and statuously entitled. The rise of the discretion is incomprehensible,

01:03:03.140 as it is inexcusable, which is what is being used by the other judges.

01:03:09.060 Is this joker part of U.S. justice?

01:03:12.100 And it does look like that. But basically, she is saying that we have remedial powers,

01:03:18.660 that we have to have notice and process which plaintiffs are allowed to come to a court and say,

01:03:23.620 please don't remove me even though I've murdered several people and I don't have a right to be here,

01:03:28.820 but I want you to argue that I can stay here. We've got that. Maybe the chicken nuggets in South

01:03:34.100 Sudan, you know, are not acceptable. But if they're in this court, they'd be allowed to stay.

01:03:38.660 So she's saying they should have their day in court and then we do that on an individual basis.

01:03:43.300 If you did that with the millions that need to be deported, they know fully well that it would

01:03:47.380 take forever and a day to remove them. And what she's also arguing is that the judges have more

01:03:53.300 power at a local level to be able to do this and that the government can't remove them. But the

01:03:58.260 point was the Supreme Court said, I'm sorry to the judge in Massachusetts, you're wrong. And then

01:04:06.980 what we get here is a lovely bit of comment from Stephen Miller, who's the architect many times,

01:04:12.340 I say, of all this policy. He's got literally a minute to answer. It's quite interesting.

01:04:16.980 The Supreme Court win. It allows President Trump, as the law has long said,

01:04:22.180 but the courts have blocked. It allows President Trump to send illegal aliens convicted of rape,

01:04:27.860 murder, homicide, assault, battery, crimes against children to any country around the world that

01:04:34.580 is willing to accept them. So whether that be South Sudan or whether it be Somalia or whether it be

01:04:40.500 Ethiopia, any country in the world that is willing to accept these monsters, we can get them out of

01:04:45.540 our country and be free of them forever. The only thing I have to share tonight, Sean, in a little bit

01:04:50.260 of breaking news is that the district court judge in Boston has said he's going to defy the Supreme

01:04:55.220 Court's ruling. So expect fireworks tomorrow when we hold this judge accountable for refusing to obey

01:05:00.500 the Supreme Court. And that's Murphy that he's talking about. Interesting. Just quickly,

01:05:05.060 I looked up Murphy and he was also the judge behind the March attempt to block in the courts,

01:05:11.540 the DHS deportations back then. And he was overruled by the Supreme Court again.

01:05:16.500 Absolutely.

01:05:17.060 So this guy is a repeated nuisance. And he was, of course, a Biden-appointed judge.

01:05:21.780 He is. And I'm going to kind of look onto this. Don't worry about it. So we're coming on here.

01:05:27.060 And what's really interesting, obviously, the Supreme Court, hands down a judgment. Yes,

01:05:32.580 you can carry on. To be fair on them, they still have to kind of decide the overall principle back

01:05:38.660 at a different level. But you can carry on. But this judge then decides that he is going to ignore

01:05:44.180 what the Supreme Court has said. And we have here, this is Judge Brian Murphy, as you said,

01:05:52.500 quite rightly, a Biden appointee, knows there is zero chance that an immigration judge will allow five

01:05:58.100 convicted murders here illegally to remain in the US. But he's insisting they'd be brought back.

01:06:03.060 And he orders them all to be brought back from Djibouti and ignores the the efforts of the courts

01:06:08.900 itself. I don't know why it's come up suddenly in a different way. I think there we go. Get rid of that.

01:06:14.820 So he's just he's just trying to waste everybody's time. It's delay. It's delay tactics. So then we have,

01:06:21.460 who is he? Well, this is Judge Brian Murphy. He is part educated at the Holy Cross and Columbia Law

01:06:29.700 School, which is known to be quite left wing. And this is his courthouse in Boston. It's an important

01:06:35.460 courthouse. It's a federal district court. So we have an element of there of being appointed there.

01:06:42.660 He was here. Elizabeth Warren introduced Judge Brian Murphy praising his dedication to the

01:06:50.660 Constitution. And Stephen Miller announced earlier that he would expect fireworks about this. I can't

01:06:57.620 call whether I'm just might be a play a little bit about this. Thank you, Chairman Durbin. I appreciate

01:07:03.220 the opportunity to come before you to introduce Brian Murphy, a nominee to the District Court of

01:07:09.140 Massachusetts. Senator Markey and I were proud to recommend Mr. Murphy to President Biden for his

01:07:15.700 appointment to the federal bench. Mr. Murphy started out as a public defender.

01:07:22.660 Right. So she wants to fight for the left and gain victory for the left and constantly create pressure.

01:07:28.500 So he's so far, what I can see from him is his wife is in a kind of school. He's a bit of a left wing

01:07:35.860 supporter in Massachusetts. He didn't have a particularly stellar legal career. He was a public defender. But

01:07:44.020 it's interesting enough that he was only appointed in December. So look at the time. They got him

01:07:50.980 just in the middle of the gap when you had this dead weight period of time between presidents.

01:07:56.100 And they pushed him through. And this is a man that so far, not once, but twice in a six month journey

01:08:03.300 of being a kind of relatively newcomer into onto the bench has decided to try and stop any decision.

01:08:09.540 It was just a case of trying to get a blue team loyalist on side as quickly as possible when

01:08:17.620 they still had chance. That's all it is. It's red team, blue team. I suspect that if Biden had been

01:08:24.020 carrying out this kind of stuff, which he was, there were deportations under Biden, this guy

01:08:29.300 wouldn't have blocked it because it's his team doing it. This is all just about undermining Trump.

01:08:33.620 I agree. And what's interesting about this is when you stand for a judge in a district,

01:08:40.260 you have to make, like everybody else, you have to say a few words and you have to agree with

01:08:44.660 the Constitution. One of the very things is that I would faithfully apply all First Circuit and

01:08:50.740 Supreme Court precedent. So where is that faithfully applying now, a precedent from the Supreme Court?

01:08:58.340 He's clearly ignored it. And then I asked the question, okay, well, someone will say,

01:09:03.940 what about district courts? Are they more powerful or less powerful than the Supreme Courts? No.

01:09:09.860 They are an important court. They're, you know, the reasonable top of the food chain in the structure

01:09:15.620 of district courts, where he is. But it's only in their relationship with their state. It's not,

01:09:23.140 when it comes down to the Supreme Court here, makes absolutely clear, and this is from the own

01:09:31.140 databases, that the lower courts are much inferior to the judgments of the Supreme Court. So here we

01:09:38.260 have a man appointed over six months ago, with not a particularly stellar legal career, but obviously

01:09:44.580 works well within the Democratic Party. On being signed up to a judge, he agrees that he will take

01:09:50.900 and agree with all the Supreme Court's constitutional rights and precedents. And he recognizes that the

01:09:58.340 Supreme Court is more significant. And yet he's decided that he will overturn it for his own

01:10:04.580 particular reason. And so here we go. I want to go on to this. Who are these individuals that this

01:10:11.220 individual is saying that we should, and I'm going to go into it first of all, is look at the individuals.

01:10:16.660 I love some of them. You might want to. They look guilty. Well, they just look pretty,

01:10:21.860 pretty evil there. Look at this. Convicted of first degree of murder, Thonge Nikolakout,

01:10:27.460 from sentenced to life confinement, homicide, armed robbery,

01:10:32.980 convicted of false imprisonment, kidnapping, robbering, you know, cocaine possession, cocaine

01:10:38.180 trafficking. Oh, what a lovely bunch of individuals. The second degree murder.

01:10:42.740 You know, on this channel here, we have robbery, possessions of firearms, burglary,

01:10:50.420 lascivious acts with a child victim. This is somebody that you want to try and keep into this

01:10:56.180 country. First degree sexual assault involving a victim mentally and physically incapable of resisting,

01:11:03.220 you know, and first degree murder, obviously all of these.

01:11:06.100 I, sorry, apologize for interrupting. I just cannot fathom how the left is trying to

01:11:12.340 defend these people. I just can't understand it.

01:11:15.700 Well, they're only defending these people purely because it's what Trump is doing. These people

01:11:21.060 represent the opposite of Trump. These people represent, irrespective of whether it was their

01:11:25.700 children being molested, their children being murdered, I'm sure that they will welcome into

01:11:29.780 the home after they've just had their 12-year-old daughter who is physically disabled,

01:11:33.780 murdered by one of them and raped, they'll allow them to have dinner with them. Because obviously,

01:11:37.780 they're the sort of people that Judge Brian Murphy would like to have with his children.

01:11:41.700 Oh no, I doubt Brian Murphy lives anywhere near where you'd find these people.

01:11:46.020 Absolutely, and there we go again.

01:11:47.620 A local judge in Massachusetts is trying to force the United States to bring back these uniquely

01:11:52.820 barbaric monsters who present a clear and present threat to the safety of the American people

01:11:59.300 and American victims. While we are fully compliant with the law and court orders, it is absolutely

01:12:06.020 absurd for a district judge to try to dictate the foreign policy and national security of the United

01:12:12.980 States of America. These are the monsters that the district judge is trying to protect.

01:12:20.820 And there we go. I mean, I think she says it pretty clearly, doesn't she? Isn't that how we feel

01:12:25.540 about it? It's pretty open and shut. Yeah, they are monsters. And he is trying to protect monsters from

01:12:32.740 leaving the country purely because he and his Democrats oppose the way that Trump is trying

01:12:40.100 to remove said monsters. Said monsters have all been convicted of particular crimes. Said monsters are

01:12:47.140 all convicted of pretty vicious crimes. And said monsters are all currently inside and illegal immigrants

01:12:53.140 anyway and should be deported. So what could you possibly say about said monster that you would allow

01:12:58.660 them to stay, even if he was in the court? And I think that's the point. Once they brought them back,

01:13:04.820 they would have their day in the immigration court to suggest that they should not be removed.

01:13:09.380 But it's about delay, obfuscation, and ensuring that Trump cannot do what their voters have done,

01:13:17.620 is what we, the lawyers, and our side are saying should be happening. And whilst we have the rule

01:13:23.860 of law, the rule of law is the Supreme Court. And the Supreme Court has suggested that these continue.

01:13:30.500 So you ask yourself, I saw this, I'm just going to put it up. Illegal alien arrested, child rape,

01:13:36.020 child pornography. These are the sort of people that this judge is effectively trying to protect.

01:13:42.260 And this is one of the memes that are going around and I picked it up and I just thought,

01:13:45.140 it's also using their colours. It's using the democratic branding. And I quite like the idea

01:13:50.180 of that. And maybe people should be using this when they're defending these individuals.

01:13:55.780 So what's the reaction? What are we going to do about this? Well, the immediate impact is that

01:14:02.180 these ICE officers are now stranded in the Djibouti. I don't know if I've actually pronounced that

01:14:08.260 right. Is it the Djibouti? The Djibouti, the Djibouti. Shake Djibouti.

01:14:21.620 I don't think we could do that. That's one of my favourite disco songs.

01:14:25.700 Yeah. It's one of my favourite Frank Saffer albums.

01:14:27.300 Frank Saffer albums. Yeah, it's got to be quite funny on that, to be honest.

01:14:31.940 So apparently they're now stuck and marooned with the eight criminals. I don't think they've

01:14:39.620 got the outrageous living conditions. I'm sure they've not, because it is a military,

01:14:43.860 naval base, isn't it, that they're based at? But I'm sure it's not entirely pleasant for them,

01:14:48.820 and they didn't expect to be gone there. Yeah, being away from home. Yeah.

01:14:52.740 Yeah, being away from home, I don't know what this is. A risk of rocket strikes from Yemen,

01:14:59.220 choked by toxic smog from nearby burn pits. Yeah, I mean, it's not for...

01:15:03.940 Could you imagine that you get stuck out there because some

01:15:06.740 shitlib district court judge has blocked the deportations, and you're stuck there,

01:15:12.100 bored, you're overheating, and then, oh God, Middle Eastern war erupts around you.

01:15:17.380 Yeah. Oh, just my look. Great. That's it. So it has other consequences,

01:15:24.100 apart from the ICE officers, and I'm sure those we've seen in California and other parts of the

01:15:28.980 United States would actually enjoy the fact that they're suffering a little bit. But you then have

01:15:34.980 the reaction from the White House itself. Caroline Levitt was actually pretty clear. We warned you this

01:15:42.020 would happen. Radical liberal district judge, massively overreaching and endangering American

01:15:47.140 law enforcement officers, as we saw in California, to protect illegal alien murderers, rapists, and

01:15:53.700 pedophiles. This has to stop. I mean, I think it's a sensible thing. It has to stop. But will it stop?

01:16:01.700 I mean, I'm not sure it will. I think they're just gaining a little bit more influence and power

01:16:06.100 about this, just to try and recognize that, in their view, that Trump is an evil dictator. And all

01:16:12.420 of this is packaging, I think, in terms of a narrative that the rule of law is being dismantled

01:16:19.300 under a dictator, rather than they are acting in a way that's ensuring that people look at them

01:16:25.380 and the judicial system as being and putting everything in danger. And that's my concern as a lawyer.

01:16:29.940 Yeah. I want to say something about it because I constantly see it as coming up in several

01:16:35.940 debates I'm engaged in. When we talk about rule of law, fundamentally, we're talking about people

01:16:40.980 and how they go on about their lives. It's people who follow rules. Yeah.

01:16:46.100 So it's not that there is a document somewhere or the structure of a particular system. These people

01:16:52.420 can play by these rules and they cannot play by these rules. So the spirit of the rule of law is what

01:16:57.460 is most important, which takes us back into the issue of culture.

01:17:00.740 Yeah. I think the spirit of the rule of law is important. From when I was,

01:17:03.940 you know, first as a lawyer at law, you know, university studying law and then at bar school,

01:17:09.380 it was really important that we have the concept of the rule of law. And the rule of law means that

01:17:13.460 you have principles in place that we all abide with, that have been settled first by the constitution

01:17:19.140 of our country, i.e. for legislation that's been placed down and judges that interpret that. And that's

01:17:24.900 important. All countries that democratically have to do that. But it is equally incumbent upon ourselves

01:17:30.260 not to try and overly influence it on your personal political views. You have to stand aside. One of the

01:17:36.340 great things of being a barrister is you don't have to actually like your client. You don't actually have

01:17:40.900 to believe in their case. You have to just ensure that you do what is right on both prosecution

01:17:47.860 and defense. You act within the principles set down to you either by the Bar Council or the Crown

01:17:53.140 Prosecution Service. And you do it without your political views being involved in that. And that

01:17:58.820 is one of the most important characteristics I always felt growing up as a lawyer in this country,

01:18:03.140 that we do not get involved in politics when making those political, when making those criminal

01:18:08.100 decisions about the case. We remove our emotion. Why people used to say as a barrister, do you not

01:18:13.940 have any emotions towards these cases? Because emotion is not evidence. Emotion is not fact. Emotion

01:18:22.260 allows you to distort evidence and distort fact. And the worst thing you want, be either a prosecutor

01:18:28.340 or defender, is to allowing your emotions to get involved in this. You have to be clear. And I think

01:18:34.180 what we're losing and why the public is becoming less trustworthy about us is because they are

01:18:40.660 actually now thinking we're putting emotions and politics before the general principles of being

01:18:46.660 impartial. And we also have to learn as lawyers to actually not show that. And I think it's crucial.

01:18:52.500 And that's why we're being attacked and why you'll end up having people like Levitt,

01:18:57.140 sorry in this case is it Levitt, saying things like this.

01:19:00.420 Now, a liberal activist district court judge in the city of Boston, Massachusetts,

01:19:05.140 is trying to force the president of the United States to bring these monsters back to our country.

01:19:12.020 Now, the reason I say that is because the language now is getting so divisive about lawyers,

01:19:16.660 a liberal activist judge. Now, I don't necessarily like that as a principle because we should all be

01:19:25.700 looking at our judges and saying they are above reproach. But what we've got it both on this

01:19:30.980 side of the pond and that side of the pond is we seem to be having judicial activism. And as now,

01:19:38.020 it's in the political playing fields. We've seen it on immigration cases. And I mean, I asked both of

01:19:43.220 you, where would you feel at the moment if you went into a court? What would you be feeling if you had to go

01:19:50.180 into a court on a particular case? Anxious. And what's the anxiety being caused from?

01:19:56.580 Well, lack of belief in the people administering. Lack of belief in the impartiality. If there was

01:20:02.500 anything that I was being tried on that required a jury, my main concern would be, please God,

01:20:09.220 let there not be any activists on this jury. Because we've seen in America, going back to

01:20:15.620 basically OJ, that juries can have an outsized amount of power on these things when they are

01:20:23.060 filled with activists or people with a grievance that they think that they can exercise through

01:20:29.140 the jury. I mean, that's what happened with the OJ trial. They were like, oh, this one's for Rodney King.

01:20:33.860 Well, that's not impartial. That's not justice being done. That's your racial revenge fantasy

01:20:42.180 being enacted right there. And sadly, it happened in the Derek Chauvin trial as well, where one of

01:20:48.260 the guys on the jury was a BLM activist. So my worry will always be now, don't let the judge be an

01:20:54.340 activist. Don't let jury members be activists. Because even one can turn it around.

01:21:00.260 And don't we think now that that is actually a really appalling state affairs, where I think

01:21:06.500 ordinary people in this country rely upon our criminal justice system, our civil justice system,

01:21:13.380 those involved in it, to be as impartial as possible. And is that because we've allowed a lot of our

01:21:21.700 lawyers, both in the United States and here in Europe, to actually elevate themselves to political

01:21:27.140 positions, to head up and think tanks, to be in the House of Lords? Is it because they are now seen

01:21:32.420 as political animals rather than just being lawyers? Is that an issue? Or is it the fact that we're just

01:21:37.380 not even allowing our courts to be seen as just being fair places because of that activism?

01:21:44.020 I don't know. But I just know that when I look at this, you've got the massive case coming on

01:21:49.780 where someone is only six months in, and he's stopping a president and ignoring the Supreme Court

01:21:55.140 within six months of him being there. And so we've got now Rubio jumps in here, who is not normally

01:22:02.820 one who attacks courts, ordering the blocking. This is bullshit. The Supreme Court needs to step in now,

01:22:10.260 and stop these rogue Democrat judges from overstepping their judicial power. To an extent,

01:22:15.700 I kind of understand and agree with the Democrats who are saying, don't use language like this,

01:22:21.620 because I think it's internally divisive to actually break down one of the

01:22:25.060 key executive branches of our nation state. But equally, we should be not allowing six-month-in

01:22:32.260 judges to be making such big decisions. And once the Supreme Court has stepped in,

01:22:35.780 you should turn around and go, yes, this is what I signed up for. I won't get involved anymore.

01:22:40.740 It's a bit rich when it comes from a leftist, though. Policing language and constantly

01:22:47.860 subjectivizing legislation. I get that. It's a disaster.

01:22:51.380 So what's happening now in the States, and I fear this will actually start to increase here,

01:22:56.020 is that it's Natto Gallaher, not a massive name over there, but it's just I saw when I was looking

01:23:02.740 through how many people are looking at Judge Brian Murphy. Fake judge. He's not. He's a real judge. He is

01:23:08.740 there. You can't deny that, although it's slightly different to the UK in that many judges can

01:23:14.500 actually be elected. But they're now saying these are the penalties. And they are penalties. I've

01:23:18.260 looked them up. You can have impeachment. That keeps being referred to now. Let's impeach the judges.

01:23:25.300 And then we have a particular situation, Eric Schmidt. And I think I'm almost going to,

01:23:30.420 very close to the end. Eric Schmidt now has been praised for this.

01:23:36.260 What happened yesterday, a radical, liberal, progressive, leftist judge,

01:23:44.260 Brian Murphy, who was confirmed in the in the lame duck session when Joe Biden,

01:23:50.740 President Otto Penn may not even have known he was appointing this person, approved by the Democrats

01:23:57.620 in the Senate, is now refusing, refusing to obey by a Supreme Court order

01:24:06.420 for the deportation of seven criminal aliens. And let's just do a little bit of tail of the tape.

01:24:12.980 These people are a one of them is a convicted arsonist. Another one is a robber. Another

01:24:19.060 one is a murderer of an elderly woman. Two more murderers. One is a child rapist, and another

01:24:25.060 is a rapist of a person with special needs. These are the people, right? These are the people that

01:24:30.900 the Democrats spend their time defending. And now we have a judge through an act of,

01:24:37.780 dare I say, insurrection, which is a word that's thrown around here all the time.

01:24:43.140 There we go. So now they've moved from being the attack that they are liberals and activists as

01:24:50.820 judges to, in the words there, an act of, dare I say, insurrection. So the language is elevated now.

01:24:57.860 I mean, I can see where the politics come on this. Well, insurrection was used for years and still is

01:25:03.300 used for January 6th as well. So this is just part of the escalation of rhetoric that's been going on

01:25:10.180 for God knows how long at this point. And it's a very dangerous escalation, and I can get it,

01:25:16.260 but he's been incredibly praised by this. And I think it's very interesting the way that they're

01:25:21.700 taking it. But the insurrection is also an opportunity for the Republican to turn around

01:25:27.380 and say, you claim this about individuals outside January 6th. Now we have our insurrection moment,

01:25:34.340 and it's all your judges all across the country. And that's all going to lead to a greater division,

01:25:41.140 without a doubt. And to an extent, they bring it on themselves. Because as the libsub tiptock,

01:25:47.380 because sometimes they do it really well, has said that 79 nationwide injunctions blocking Trump's

01:25:53.380 agenda. And it isn't just the criminal cases about removing illegal... I mean, two days ago,

01:25:59.380 it was about stopping the USAID claims. Another day, it was about stopping Trump from being able to

01:26:08.980 fire people. Another one, it was stopping Trump from being able to end the programs related to EVs,

01:26:15.460 subsidies in California. It's everything that he's come in to try and do. They're challenging in the

01:26:21.860 courts about it. And it's almost as to say, what is the point of a president? If a president can't come in,

01:26:29.380 and through executive orders, or use the Congress, or the Senate, or the agreement to stop these

01:26:34.900 programs, why is he allowed to there? But if not, we're going to challenge it. And in the end, I got

01:26:40.660 this from the finish on this. Radical judges have issued nationwide injunctions to block the Trump

01:26:46.980 administration from advancing its agenda that 77 million Americans voted for. They've got to address

01:26:54.260 the problems of the judiciary. So it's going to elevate this a little bit more. And what

01:26:59.220 you've got now is in the people's minds, this idea that the judiciary lawyers are not on the

01:27:04.340 sides of the voters, they're being used as an instrument to create further division in this

01:27:08.740 country, in the United States. But equally, the same applies here. Equally, we saw what happened

01:27:13.860 with Marie Le Pen in Europe. Equally, we're seeing that being used with the AFD in Germany. This isn't

01:27:19.700 good, in my view, for having a rule of law that is applicable, where everybody can understand,

01:27:25.220 understand, and we can all accept. Thank you. Samson, do we have a few extra minutes today?

01:27:33.780 Okay, great. Oh, okay.

01:27:34.740 Right, so Sigilstone17 says, has LE covered or going to cover Musk's announcement that because Grok

01:27:41.940 won't stop repeating actual history, they're going to rewrite history to their preference and train

01:27:47.140 Grok on that? Haven't heard that, to be honest. No, I haven't. That's something. I've not heard this.

01:27:54.180 Sorry, I just decided to Google it. Check.

01:27:57.300 Elon Musk wants Grok AI to replace historical facts, is a headline that I've just found. I have not

01:28:04.020 seen it either. You carry on and I... Okay, hapsification says, I would rather have robots

01:28:08.980 and AI be the judicial system. It's not such a bad idea. Okay, that's all right.

01:28:15.060 Who's programmed the robots and AI? I, I'm gonna do it. You, you specifically. To be fair. I'm gonna

01:28:20.900 learn to code. You are principled enough that you'd probably just try and make everything fair.

01:28:25.140 Yeah. Exactly. There you go. That's a random name says, also brother Stylianos,

01:28:30.820 I love you, but you keep reading the ramble rants in the wrong order and it makes me long for the

01:28:36.100 Gom Jabba. I love the Dune references, which is why that's a random name says, Harry the Red Harkonnen's

01:28:44.340 efforts to remove Fremen undesirables were frustrated by a spacing guild funded judge of the change,

01:28:50.740 all made worse by his Bene Gesserit wife, only bearing him daughters.

01:28:55.300 Only bearing him daughters.

01:28:56.420 Oh, you're gonna change the religion of the place.

01:29:00.420 Go Henry the Eighth again.

01:29:02.180 I'm just looking into this. So from what it looks like is that Musk obviously has said he wants Grok to be

01:29:07.620 anti-woke. He also did a proposal

01:29:10.420 a proposal where he said he urged users on X to submit politically incorrect, but factually true

01:29:18.660 content to help train Grok. So it sounds like in reality, what he wants to do is to just make it

01:29:24.660 not biased towards woke narratives. Yeah.

01:29:27.460 And people are furious about that.

01:29:29.620 Cedule Stone 17 says, is this the same judge that issued an injunction against Trump brokering

01:29:35.780 a ceasefire and ordered Israel and Iran to resume shelling each other?

01:29:42.420 I don't think it is. It would have showed up on his wiki page.

01:29:46.580 Hapsification says, another protracted war like the other wars and bombings for the last 24 years

01:29:52.340 will signal the end and demise of Pax Americana.

01:29:56.180 People have been predicting it for years, but we'll see if it happens.

01:30:00.100 Pat Buchanan had his book, Suicide of a Superpower, Will America Last Until 2025?

01:30:06.660 It's gone on this far. Not that I'm a fan of those actions that it's taken in the Middle East,

01:30:10.820 but it does seem to be carrying on for now.

01:30:14.660 Let's go first video.

01:30:17.060 We have the strictest fitness standards here at Gen ZPD to keep the community safe.

01:30:22.340 Our test is comparable to the Navy SEALs.

01:30:26.180 The test is a half mile walk in under 30 minutes.

01:30:32.020 Clearing a two foot wall.

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01:30:48.820 AI is getting far too good these days.

01:30:51.060 Sorry, they still can't spell in the background though.

01:30:56.900 Yeah, on his scooter.

01:31:00.180 Join our team. Let's come and join our team.

01:31:03.060 Let's go to the next one.

01:31:04.900 Richard Cavendish was a well-respected historian of religion and the occult.

01:31:08.660 The son of a Church of England clergyman back when the Church of England was worthy.

01:31:12.500 His interest and expertise shows through in his writing.

01:31:15.380 Visions of Heaven and Hell is a light analysis of how the Abrahamic face view the subject of death

01:31:19.860 and the afterlife while also juxtaposing beliefs from ancient Greece and Rome as well as Hindu,

01:31:25.060 Buddhist and even Shinto.

01:31:26.980 My illustrated version features works from the National Gallery that really bring colour to the text.

01:31:31.620 That's really interesting.

01:31:34.420 I think I might have some Cavendish at home on the bookshelf somewhere.

01:31:38.020 I probably do. Sorry, carry on.

01:31:39.700 No, I think I've heard that perhaps the original view of Hell came from an old Jewish custom, I think,

01:31:46.580 because they were burning trash.

01:31:48.500 Take that with a pinch of salt.

01:31:50.100 I think they were burning trash and they were poking it with tridents to burn it.

01:31:53.780 Ah, okay.

01:31:54.900 Just, I think Gechana.

01:31:56.420 I think I might have a big illustrated version of his King Arthur and the Holy Grails.

01:32:02.580 Right, so let's go to the comment.

01:32:04.020 Honourable mentions.

01:32:05.700 Furious Dan says,

01:32:06.900 I hope the Stelios receives the signatures for his Chud Jack apology forms

01:32:11.940 or perhaps there is yet another thing that never happens.

01:32:15.380 What time is it?

01:32:16.660 Look at the clock.

01:32:18.260 Lord Inquisitor Hector Rex has asked when my series on the Weimar Republic will be released.

01:32:24.180 Well, first, the editing needs to be done on the Stonewall video that I recorded last September, October.

01:32:31.140 I have been given a ETA of maybe two to two and a half months on that one.

01:32:35.940 I'm really looking forward to that.

01:32:36.820 That'll probably be about an hour and a half long.

01:32:39.060 And the Weimar one, the script's all done.

01:32:43.220 I'm waiting for this to finally go away.

01:32:46.820 The mark that my daughter left me with after she smacked me on the head with an abacus.

01:32:51.220 Is that what the...

01:32:53.460 That's what that was.

01:32:54.340 It flared up massively, turned into a cyst and now has gone back down, but there is still a mark.

01:33:00.420 Probably film it maybe next week.

01:33:02.500 Like, stop talking about Weimar.

01:33:05.060 And then it's going to be...

01:33:07.620 Weimar Solutions, Dad!

01:33:08.980 What? No, no, no.

01:33:11.060 Then it'll need to be edited.

01:33:13.860 It'll probably be like three hours long, so maybe next year.

01:33:17.220 I wish it was sooner. I wish it could be done quicker.

01:33:20.100 But you need to understand our editors have a ridiculous workload put on them every single day,

01:33:25.460 so there's not as much time for more highly edited projects to be done quickly.

01:33:29.940 Do you want to read or do you want me to read?

01:33:32.420 I'll read a few of mine.

01:33:33.460 So, re-sim, I fear that Carmelo Anthony case will go the way of OJ and Derek Chauvin,

01:33:38.420 wherein activists will embed themselves within Anthony's jury to provide a wrongful, innocent verdict.

01:33:43.380 All the evidence from what I have seen shows that Carmelo Anthony went with intent to stab someone that day.

01:33:48.980 Therefore, he should be sentenced accordingly.

01:33:51.060 All we can do is hope that justice will be blind, allowing justice to take its course.

01:33:54.900 So, to address that, I think, from my understanding of what I know,

01:34:00.100 the likelihood is that he went there with the intention to nick a bunch of stuff from people's backpacks,

01:34:05.620 got caught doing so, and had the knife with him as a backup, and assumed that if he could provoke a situation,

01:34:12.900 he would be able to plead himself self-defense out of the situation.

01:34:16.420 Um, so, yeah, I think that's indefensible.

01:34:19.300 I think he did murder somebody, but that's my read of events that I can see so far.

01:34:23.940 He thought, well, if they catch me, I'll just say, oh, self-defense, bro, and get a OJ treatment from it,

01:34:30.820 because that's what, um, some people in America have been conditioned to think they can get away with.

01:34:36.260 Uh, you can go on to yours, Stelios.

01:34:38.020 Okay, so...

01:34:38.660 The FAGA Wars.

01:34:39.860 Sophie Liv says,

01:34:41.540 I feel like it's a little silly to just believe that the commander-in-chief of the military won't ever enter any conflict.

01:34:48.740 I, I agree with you.

01:34:50.420 Um, I am pretty convinced that a lot of people just have no idea what the role of the president actually is.

01:34:56.100 He's not there to make legislation or control taxes or anything like that.

01:35:00.580 He's there to be the head of the military and defend the country.

01:35:03.300 So, if there's a threat to America, that is his job as a president.

01:35:07.620 However, the big issue here seems to be that there isn't a threat to America, at least not from that location.

01:35:14.100 There's a threat to Israel.

01:35:15.300 So, what the hell?

01:35:16.900 Now, that isn't the job of the president to defend a foreign nation.

01:35:20.420 Well, you could say the same thing about Soleimani.

01:35:22.980 There are some people who say that he did it entirely for Israel.

01:35:26.420 Other people are saying that there have been overlapping interests of several nations.

01:35:30.900 Also, also, also the US's and Israel's.

01:35:34.900 I think what people, I think what she's referring to there is that the initial instigation of this was the idea that not only were Iran capable of building a bomb,

01:35:46.740 but were going to build a bomb with which they were going to threaten Israel and, as well, the US.

01:35:51.940 I saw Mark Levin and all sorts of people saying that if they drop it on Tel Aviv, New York will be next.

01:35:59.460 Trump's own intelligence doesn't seem to back that up.

01:36:01.620 Whether or not they had the capability to do so doesn't mean that they were actually doing so or intended to do so,

01:36:07.140 especially given that what we've seen has been Iran has wanted to de-escalate since Israel opened to the offensives.

01:36:13.940 And my other problem with this whole thing, as well, is that if they wanted to ensure that Iran weren't going to enrich uranium

01:36:21.140 to the point where they could potentially, feasibly manufacture an atomic bomb,

01:36:25.780 I still don't understand the logic behind Trump's backing out of the JPCOA, I think that was the word for it, back in 2018.

01:36:35.540 I don't think the logic really pans out there.

01:36:37.460 I think he wanted to say, basically, I'm not a bomber, you're not going to take advantage of me.

01:36:41.380 But whatever, maybe I'm a neocon shill.

01:36:44.660 No, no, I don't think you're a neocon shill by saying that.

01:36:48.180 I just don't think that the arguments presented for pulling out of it were very strong at the time.

01:36:53.380 And I think from all the reports that I've seen,

01:36:55.940 they were sticking to their end of the bargain into the nuclear agreement.

01:36:59.620 By the way, I didn't imply you said it.

01:37:01.140 Oh, no, I'm not saying that.

01:37:02.820 Okay, Barron Von Warhawk says, no, excuse me, George Happ.

01:37:05.860 The backlash towards the Iran attack has actually given me hope.

01:37:09.300 The MAGA movement is not a monolith and is not Trump cultists.

01:37:13.700 We needed to outlive Trump and improve upon him.

01:37:16.260 The principle should trump party loyalty.

01:37:18.100 I absolutely agree with it.

01:37:19.780 And I agree with you that there should have been a sort of backlash.

01:37:24.580 My view wasn't against people who were scared that there was going to be a war or a war was going to erupt.

01:37:30.980 I don't want a war.

01:37:31.780 I don't want something like that to happen.

01:37:34.740 My point was specifically against some people who pushed,

01:37:38.100 who didn't want to let this crisis go to waste and cared more about their narrative than about what happened.

01:37:46.260 And it's absolutely true that people shouldn't be Trump cultists.

01:37:50.980 Trump, every person has a duty to criticize every government, including Trump's administration.

01:37:58.820 Barron Von Warhawk says, I find it hypocritical that Trump's actions caused some people to cry for his impeachment.

01:38:04.580 However, in 2009, Obama bombed four American citizens in the Middle East and nothing happened.

01:38:11.220 Michael Drabbleby says, amazing how fast people are coming back to Trump.

01:38:16.660 Firas said it best yesterday when he said that so many of us misjudged what Trump was doing.

01:38:22.180 And Michael Drabbleby says again, Harry, Trump is unscripted.

01:38:25.700 Remember, what he says out loud may not reflect what he's doing behind the scenes.

01:38:30.420 Oh, I agree completely with that, which is why I think when I see people who tell me to trust the plan,

01:38:37.460 I would ask them what exactly the plan seems to be.

01:38:41.060 We're all in the dark on situations like that.

01:38:43.140 And again, I do not think Trump is the one in the driver's seat when it comes to

01:38:47.300 what appear to be much longer scale geopolitical strategic initiatives and goals by the security state.

01:38:55.940 Lord Inquisitor Hector X says, Ola pictures the meme of the US and Iran shaking hands with the

01:39:01.540 warmongering neocons screeching in the background.

01:39:05.700 Jay McGovern says, well, that was the worst World War ever, like two teen noobs on call of duty swearing at each other online.

01:39:13.400 I quite like that one.

01:39:14.180 In terms of Michael Drabbleby, sorry, I couldn't see there for a moment, Michael.

01:39:21.300 The three liberal justices have an issue with the inability to understand the Constitution.

01:39:26.740 Sotomayor was famous for saying that as a wise Latina, I might rule differently from a white man,

01:39:32.600 basically admitting that she uses feelings over facts and law, my concern.

01:39:36.500 So he continues by saying, keep the illegals that come to work, deport the ones that are here to commit additional crimes or to be benefit sponges.

01:39:44.820 Michael, do you mean Latina or Latinx?

01:39:47.700 Tell us.

01:39:49.300 AZ Desert Rat said, what I think is saddest about these criminal migrants is that their victims are often other migrants or people who are completely destitute.

01:39:57.380 And that's a very good point on that.

01:39:58.580 We're not looking after those.

01:40:00.080 Southport, wasn't it?

01:40:00.780 Well, in Southport, one of the girls who was stabbed and died, sadly, was Portuguese.

01:40:05.960 But in this case, it was one of them assaulting a mentally disabled person.

01:40:10.440 Exactly.

01:40:11.140 So we don't seem to be standing up for those individuals.

01:40:14.380 Orange Juicer says, lawyers are derided in the West because they reject Christian morality for secular causes, from BLM to feminism to atheism.

01:40:22.560 And that is the point, is you're putting your views in terms of actual practicalities of law.

01:40:28.120 And Sophie Liv says, America, judges defend illegal immigrants, pedos.

01:40:34.220 England, first time bro.

01:40:36.480 I'm not quite sure what that is, but maybe you have a better answer than me.

01:40:39.440 This is what we've been going through for very long.

01:40:42.640 Oh, yeah, yeah, exactly.

01:40:44.520 Sophie and her comments, always devious, right?

01:40:50.680 Cryptic.

01:40:51.540 Today was really good.

01:40:53.400 Thank you very much for being with us.

01:40:55.420 I hope you enjoyed it.

01:40:56.440 We have run out of time and see you tomorrow at 3, at 1 p.m., sorry.

01:41:02.900 And check Ferraz's Geopolitics, Realpolitik, Geopolitics show.

01:41:08.080 Goodbye.

01:41:08.720 Goodbye.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - June 25, 2025

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